Transferencia de conocimiento
January 13, 2020
El Departamento de Educación del Gobierno Vasco y el centro de investigación BC3, organizan de forma conjunta la iniciativa “Training Caravan – Ikertzaileak Gelan”, activa desde el año 2010. Esta iniciativa (que cumple su 11ª edición este año) se organiza en el marco del Programa de Ciencia Responsable e Innovación (RRI por sus siglas en inglés) de BC3.
The aim the Training Caravan initiative, underpinned by the Science Education thematic area of BC3´s RRI Science Education, is to provide evidence(science)-based answers to some central questions about climate change, drawing on the best current scientific understanding and at the same time, making science education and careers attractive for young people.
December 4, 2019
BC3 is an admitted observer organization at Conference of the Parties. Since 2010 BC3 has been playing an active role at COPs with a variety of contributions. UN agencies, admitted observer organizations and those Parties that partner with observers present their work or foster discussions on key issues, often engaging the audience in a Q&A session.
BC3 will contribute in COP25 to different events and platform for admitted observer organizations, which have limited speaking opportunities in the formal negotiations, to engage with Parties and other participants for knowledge sharing, capacity building, networking and exploring actionable options for meeting the climate challenge.
November 15, 2019
El próximo 28 de noviembre tendrá lugar en Getxo la jornada “Gobiernos locales, costas, mares y cambio climático”, que organizamos junto con Euskal Fondoa y el Ayuntamiento de Getxo, con el objetivo de dar a conocer qué se está haciendo desde Euskadi para conservar los ecosistemas marítimos y costeros, tanto desde la Ciencia como desde las Administraciones públicas locales o la Cooperación. Contaremos para ello con expertas y expertos de BC3, el centro tecnológico AZTI, la ONG Medicus Mundi, o el propio Ayuntamiento de Getxo.
October 9, 2019
Unai Pascual investigador de BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change: Klima Aldaketa Ikergai e Ikerbasque Professor, ha presentado ante el Parlamento Vasco las principales claves del informe realizado por la Plataforma Intergubernamental sobre Biodiversidad y Servicios de los Ecosistemas (IPBES) sobre biodiversidad. Este informe ha sido publicado el 29 de mayo en Paris, con un gran impacto en la ciudadanía y en los medios de comunicación. Unai Pascual, ha sido miembro del Comité de Gestión de la Evaluación Global de IPBES y es uno de los autores principales del informe, siendo el único autor principal del Estado.
September 24, 2019
María José Sanz, directora científica del BC3, ha participado en el webinar “Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de monitoreo, reporte y verificación nacionales hacia compromisos climáticos más ambiciosos” co-organizado por LEDS LAC, y NDC Partnership, el segundo de una serie de seis webinars enfocados en la revisión y el aumento de la ambición de los compromisos climáticos adquiridos. A través de experiencias de países, los posibles vínculos entre el ciclo de las NDCs y la mejora continua de los sistemas nacionales de MRV de emisiones y remociones de gases de efecto invernadero.
September 16, 2019
BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change former cientific director Anil Markandya took part this week at the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP 14). This conference was scherduled to take place from 2-13 September 2019, at the India Expo Center and Mart in New Delhi, India.
Part of the side event “Economics of land degradation: Development Alternatives, WOTR & the ELD Initiative” the Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor Markandya gave a presentation about “Economics of Land Degatation: Insights from an evaluation study in Bundelhand by Development Alternatives Group”.
September 11, 2019
New blog post on upcoming collaboration wit the IDB to connect ecosystem services to economic (CGE) models and make underlying data and models FAIR. Under the title "Developing Tools for Valuing Natural Capital’s Contribution to Economic Well-Being: OPEN IEEM" Ferdinando Villa, BC3 Ikerbasque researcher, Onil Banerjee from Natural Resource Economist with the IDB, Kenneth J Bagstad from Research Economist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver and Martin Cicowiez from researcher at the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies explains the advancements on linking the IEEM platform with Ecosystem Services Values and to the contribution to economic well-being.
June 11, 2019
The materials presented in this product seek to provide information on the Katowice Climate Package, agreed during the Katowice Climate Conference held in 2018. Specifically, it contains information on the decisions related to the modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support to facilitate understanding of the Parties’ communication and reporting obligations under the Paris Agreement, as well as the process to track progress implementation of NDC commitments. This material seeks to serve as a resource for developing countries for the update, review and communication of NDCs, as well as for the reporting and accounting of their NDC commitments.
April 15, 2019
BC3 co-organiza el workshop "El Cambio Climático en las empresas y la industria" junto a UPV/EHU y Funts Project el próximo 6 de mayo en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Gipuzkoa (Escuela de Eibar). Este evento tiene como objetivo ayudar a las empresas y a la industria a aclarar las dudas sobre el cambio climático, a entender el nuevo marco en el que se van a mover las empresas y establecer un hoja de ruta que permita a las empresa dar los primeros pasos hacia un nuevo modelo de organización responsable con su entorno y con el planeta.
April 15, 2019
BC3 Scientific Director, María José Sanz, participate as co-chair, at the GFOI Plenary 2019 held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 8-11 April 2019. The objective of the The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) is an informal partnership to coordinate international support to developing countries on forest monitoring and MRV procedures for REDD+ and related activities. Through collaborative action, GFOI aims to provide a larger and more targeted package of support than any one partner can provide alone.
